On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 08:34, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > if it's convenient, why bother having to make an initrd at all? > since you're building a new kernel, you might as well just build > ext3 support into the kernel proper. then you can dispense with > this whole mkinitrd business. > > frankly, i'm still puzzled why red hat doesn't do that in the first > place. i've heard the argument that it's not done since red hat > considers ext3 to still be "experimental". I don't think that's correct... > if that's the case, > why is ext3 the default FS for installation? It wouldn't be if Red Hat had doubts about it. I believe the reason is that the kernel image has a maximum size; everything that can be a module is so that the kernel doesn't overflow that size. -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
